Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-25
0OOD 0UASSlN0,
1s Was Done BY Sleeping Car Port~r-Es
when You Know Now,

IL Was Done By . Sleeping Car Portsr-Essy
when You Know How.
From the Chicago Herald.
"There in one sleeping car porter In this
country who will not die poor. II thrift and
smartneaa count for any thing" said gen.
tlemsn who has just returned from trip to
California "Soon after We left Omaha the
porter OF our car began to talk base bali and
to let rs all know that he WAS Q base ball
crank. He grew rather familiar, too, consid.
ering his station, but nobody objected, for II
IL always best on cross country trip TO keep
on the good side Of porter. Among the pss
sengers were several gentlemen who take Q
little interest In base ball, and 20 along in the
afternoon, when the porter told about tho
sport some passengers had had the week 30.
fore, and suggested that JUS to kill time We
initiate their example, tine gemmen maxim
up bsse bail pool st s5 guess, de gemmen'
guessin' clostist 70 do way dc fo5 leagues
games come out to take dc pot there were
seven responses After tho money had been
paid into the hands Of ono who was selected
to act - stakeholder, and the subscribers had
written out their guesses and signed their
names 70 them, the porter humbly asked
permission TO come 10. Though We all
freshness, 10 long - he bad suggested the
scheme, In which We had begun 70 take Q
good deal al interest, there was no one to oh.
ject So the porter put up his q and filed
his guess with the stakeholder.
The next day We got paper at Cheyenne,
and you can Imagine how surprised We were
when We discovered that only one man in
the party had named the four winners, and
that man tho porter. Tho way that fellow
grtnned when he put the $40 away In his
pocket made me feel supicious, and 20 later
on, when another pool Of the same kind Was
proposed decided to stay out and keep an
eye on the porter. About 3 o'clock the train
stopped st . little station, and saw the
porter making . break for the telegraph
office When he came out he had message,
which he was reading eagerly. He Pai
down In the smoking car and scribbied some.
thing on piece Of paper, consulting his
TO the sleeping car, remarking thst he'd give
tho gemmen . chance 70 git part OF do stuff
back, and deposited with the stakeholder q
$5 bill and the slip OF paper Id ssen him
writing on In the smoking car.
"Hsying found out what his game was, I
took the stakeholder one side and said TO
him This darkey is buncoiDg ua 1t is
now after O'Clock. In New York and Bos.
ton 1t IL after s. The games have been
played. We haven't been thinking of that,
but this darkey has He just received q
message telling him which won, and he has
named these clubs and expects to take our
money, just a he did yesterday
$50 the stakeholder and took out ali tho
guesses, changed them all to read the same
clubs that the porter had named, and put
them back. Then he posted the other fel-
Iowa Next day when the returns were
opened and 1t was found that each Ruesssr
had named the four winners, 1t was worth
five times S5 apiece to us to sse the expires.
sions which chased each other up and down
that shrewd darkey's face"